Interpersonal Affairs

Whether someone admits it or not doesn’t matter, I think everyone wants to be touched — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Everyone wants to be loved. To be heard. To feel special. People want to be swept off their feet — erotically...

There is a lot of attention right now on the COW governments lying to We the People, probably with intention to mislead. In some circles there is also dismay (and cynicism) at the ability (and sometimes apparent eagerness) of We the People to be...

Letting go. How the f**k is one supposed to let go? So many times over the last few months I’ve heard “Mark, you must let go! You’ll get everything you desire (!) if you’ll just let go!”. “But I’m not good at letting go” I reply....

Not just to the people I find interesting and passionate about ‘their thing’, or people with a Scottish accent who can say anything and my attention will remain focused but really listening to people’s...

Michael Light was for years involved with the Byron Bay local community, and has seen himself as a medium through whom healing can happen. He's worked in the prison system, as a social worker on the streets, in schools where he teaches how to play...

Graeme Innis first discovered the powers of burial as a protester in the Daintree Rainforest, Queensland, when he was buried for 3 days. Being in the earth with the ancient trees of the Daintree (some trees there were 5000 years old!) with just his...

I was thinking about initiation and what that means in our society as it heads into another millenium, and thought I'd speak to some friends, get the low-down, and then put it all together in a coherent mix. Well, great idea! It soon became clear...

Probably more than any other place on earth, at least that I know of, Byron Bay is a place where people come to live out their dreams. What these dreams are will be unique to each person. Some have got dreams of enlightenment, of creating a...

It’s funny the thoughts you have when you stop thinking. After a hectic few months of being out there, organising and making decisions, I decided to take some time out. A friend was going on holiday and offered her home at the Bodhi Farm community...

In Byron Bay, wherever there are seekers, what is heard most about is the desire for enlightenment, to be free. Free of what is rarely articulated. What do I want to be free of? The desire for a new car? For a new and cuter girlfriend? For a new...